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Dog Park’s ‘Barbaric’ history

30Dec16

By MARK SARDELLA Last month, through the efforts of a number of local people, local dog lovers and their canine friends received the gift of a new dog park in the Junction. But this long-vacant parcel and its neighboring property have an interesting, but mostly forgotten, history dating back to May 17, 1969. Let’s set […]

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Tags: 1969, Altamont, Baby Boomers, Barbarics, bikers, bust, COPS, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Daniel Sullivan, Dog Park, dogs, drugs, Flower Power, Grateful Dead, Hells Angels, hippies, History, jail, John Tecce, Judge Lawrence Brooks, Judge Louis Glaser, LSD, Malden District Court, marijuana, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts State Police, millennials, motorcycle gang, pills, police, pot, raid, Rolling Stones, Sgt. Robert Westscott, Sixties, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Massachusetts, Wakefield Police, weapons, William Scanlon, Woodstock, youth

Police backers ‘Cover the town in blue’

26Oct16

By MARK SARDELLA WAKEFIELD — They are on a mission – and that mission is to show support for police officers and law enforcement everywhere. On Sunday, that effort came to Wakefield. Dozens of people, including Wakefield Police officers, State Police officers, their spouses, family members and friends joined forces to “cover the town in […]

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Tags: blue ribbon campaign, Chief Rick Smith, Courtney Peledge, Lt Scott Reboulet, marijuana, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts State Police, Michelle Reboulet, Officer David Morales, police, Trooper Justin Peledge, Trooper Thomas Clardy, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Massachusetts, Wakefield Police

DA brings water safety message to Wakefield

25Jun16

By MARK SARDELLA WAKEFIELD — With Lake Quannapowitt as the backdrop, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan stood shoulder to shoulder with a host of local officials yesterday to convey a life-saving message about water safety this summer. And to hammer the point home, the Wakefield Fire Department conducted a simulated drowning rescue, swimming far […]

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Tags: Action Ambulance, Adam Rodgers, boating, Boys & Girls Club of Stoneham & Wakefield, Captain Mary Walker, District Attorney Marian Ryan, drowning, Fire Chief Michael Sullivan, Lake Quannapowitt, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Environmental Police, Middlesex County, Mike Woronka, Police Chief Richard Smith, rescue, safety, swimming, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Fire Department, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Police, water, water safety

Identity crisis

26Mar16

Identity theft is big business – not only for the thieves but for a host of companies that have sprung up to help consumers thwart those who would steal the identities of others. But increasingly, identity theft is being committed in connection with other crimes, like drug trafficking. Police are all too aware of this […]

Filed under: Columns & Essays, News, Opinion, Politics, Wakefield | 4 Comments
Tags: Americans, Boston, Channel 5, cocaine, drivers license, drugs, fake ID, fraud, heroin, identity theft, illiegal aliens, James Scott, Lakeside Inn, Lord Wakefield, Lowell, Luis De Jesus Castro, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, News, Puerto Rico, Saugus Police, social security number, TV, United States, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Police, WCVB

Judgment Day

19Feb16

“The judgment-free zone.” That’s what Planet Fitness calls itself in its advertising campaign. It’s smart marketing to appeal to those who avoid gyms for fear of being judged as to heavy, too scrawny or just plain out of shape compared to the rest of the gym rats. “No gymtimidation,” is another way that Planet Fitness […]

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Tags: addiction, arrest, crime, drug dealer, fitness, genetics, gym, heroin, jail, judgment, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, opiates, opioid, Planet Fitness, prison, science, trafficker, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Police, workout

Wakefield’s art theft mystery

03Nov15

by Mark Sardella (Wakefield Daily Item) It’s not exactly the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, but it appears that Wakefield may be dealing with an art theft mystery of its own. In the past year, a combined total of three paintings have gone missing from two of the town’s oldest institutions, located almost directly across […]

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Tags: Amos Boardman, Art, art theft, artist, Beebe Library, Elizabeth Lowry, Franklin Poole, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Janine Fabiano, Joe Cresta, Joseph C. Payro, Joseph Payro, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, painting, Rembrandt, Sharon Gilley, Storm on the Sea of Galilee, The Concert, theft, Unitarian Universalist Church, Vermeer, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Police

Not Cool

14Aug15

Last week, a drunk Lynnfield woman was spotted driving the wrong way on Route 128, heading south on the northbound side of the highway. Luckily, Wakefield Police were able to stop and arrest her before she killed herself or anyone else. She was wasted on a legal drug, alcohol, not (as far as we know) […]

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Tags: addiction, alcohol, Charlie Baker, drugs, legalization, marijuana, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, medical marijuana, pot, prohibition, Route 128, smoking, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Police, weed

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Posts Tagged ‘Wakefield Police’

Dog Park’s ‘Barbaric’ history

Police backers ‘Cover the town in blue’

DA brings water safety message to Wakefield

Judgment Day

Wakefield’s art theft mystery

Not Cool

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